Saturday, June 30, 2012

This blog is wholly dedicated to my father's Macedonian secret police (State
Security Agency) file active between 1992 and 1998. It contains a total
of 50 separate "Operative Memos" (all translated into English) detailing the SSA's attempt to recruit
him in its service. My goal is to disclose, not just the injustice done
to my family, but more so to warn the North American public of the
dangers of neglecting individual liberties--property rights in
particular--as has been the trend in recent years.

At the request of the 1st Department of the State
Security Agency exhaustive authentications have been completed regarding the
person PETROVSKI JORDAN, from father Dušan and mother Nada; born on 24/JAN/1951
in Kumanovo, where he resides in an apartment on "Pitu Guli" street
number 15; married, father of two, Macedonian, citizen of Macedonia.

He originates from a materially well established family from
Kumanovo. During the Struggle for National Liberation [World War II] and the People's
Revolution [also reference to WWII], Jordan's father, Dušan lived in Kumanovo
and did not take part in either. The Petrovski family does not enjoy good
reputation or authority among the people. The family itself is looked upon with
contempt and hatred, because of its enemy stance, especially Dušan Petrovski. During
the Bulgarian Occupation [WWII], Dušan worked for the Bulgarian Commissariat in
Kumanovo. As such, he had a hostile attitude toward his fellow citizens. Additionally,
there are confirmed records that he was an asset of the Bulgarian Intelligence Service.
He was held as a connection by some Andonov, an officer of the then Ministry of
Internal Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria in charge of Kumanovo. Additionally,
it is known among the people that during the occupation Dušan maintained
contacts with German officers as well. After the liberation Dušan for some time
was used by the State Security Service of the Republic of Macedonia and it is probable
that this fact contributed for his continued appointments on high managerial
positions during his entire working life.

The same [Dušan] went into retirement 3 or 4 years ago. As a
retiree he has been working—he assists his son Jordan: first in establishing,
later in the starting-up of the private company "Snežana i Sinovi"
["Snežana and Sons"]; and later with the registering of the
import-export company under the same name.

During our intelligence gathering we came to know that
Petrovska Nada, wife of Dušan, comes from an enemy family. Her origin is from a
Serbian family that moved from Pirot, the Republic of Serbia. Nada's brother,
whose name we were not able to find out during the preliminary research phase,
took an active part in the Četnikmovement of Draža Mihajlović [Serbian Royalists, who allied themselves
with Nazi occupiers during WWII]. The same [Nada's brother] since he left
Kumanovo, joined the Četnik movement and from then on never returned to Kumanovo,
so that to this day nothing is known of him in the area of Kumanovo.

As with Dušan, so with his wife Nada, among the people they
are known as materialists, who have always been involved in doing illegal trade
and smuggling and those are the reasons that afforded them to acquire large
sums of money.

The Subject, Jordan, finished eight years of elementary
school and technical high school in Kumanovo. After graduation he enrolled in
the Higher school [College] of Economics in Prilep. He did not complete his
Higher Education. As a high school cadre, he found employment in FZC [steel
pipe manufacturing factory ''11 Octomvri''-Kumanovo] in the Section for preparatory
production. He remained employed there for 5-6 years, after leaving his job he returned
to work as a warehouse worker at the "Stan" company where he remained
for some time, and left this job to soon after found his own production company
"Snežana i Sinovi". Soon after, as part of the company he opened a
restaurant, as well as a wholesale export-import company. As an owner of an
export-import company Jordan had the chance to establish numerous contacts with
owners of companies from R Bulgaria.

The Subject was a member of the SKM [Communist Union of
Macedonia] until the fall of Socialism and the establishment of the multi-party
political system of our country. From then on the Subject is known to have
adopted a VMRO-political ideology [the reference is to the party VMRO-DPMNE,
which at the time held a center-right ideology]. As an owner of an economically
strong company during the first elections (during the pre-election campaign)
the Subject donated large sums of money to his own party for its propaganda and
persuasion efforts.

According to the findings of the SDB [State Security
Service] in his current business dealings with people from the Republic of
Bulgaria the Subject is making deals under suspicious conditions and circumstances.

The environment in which he moves and the people with whom
he is close and is in regular contact are
persons who come from families that hold now or have in the past held the same
or similar attitude [ideology] (Georgiev Bojan, son of Georgiev Strahil, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Predrag Dimkovski, son of d-r. Dimkovski Mile and other persons with same
ideological-political orientation).

Lately, he has often been visited in his restaurant and
contacted by Lt. Col. Tasev Todor of the ARM [Army of the Republic of
Macedonia] and Miomir Zafirovski, who was until recently Deputy-Commander of
the Municipality Headquarters for Territorial Defense in Kumanovo; he is the
son of a retired Major of the JNA [Yugoslavian National Army].

Jordan's wife, Snežana, comes from a middle-propertied
[middle class] working family. Her father Spiro Georgievski was employed in the
RSVR [a former name for the Ministry of Internal Affairs] up until 7-8 years
ago from where he retired. Snežana graduated from high school in Kumanovo, and
went on to Dentist School at the University in Skopje, but did not complete her
education.

She has been employed at the private enterprise
"Senžana i Sinovi" since its inception. She is politically passive,
as are her parents.

On the basis of the completed research, the acquired findings
and records, we evaluate that Jordan because of his activity, his family origin,
his social environment, as well as the findings of the suspicious environment
in the sphere of commerical cooperation as an owner of a company that deals
with owners of private and state-owned companies from Bulgaria, should be a
person of interest to the SDB [State Security Service].

At this time it is our opinion that it is necessary to work
on the discovery and identification of his connections and positions in Bulgaria;
a more detailed discovery of the conditions and the environments in the sphere
of his commercial cooperation, possible privileges, etc. Our attitude and
position [friendly or hostile] toward him for the next period will depend on
the findings of our further study of these elements.

On 14/OCT/1992 I entered the hospitality establishment
"Snežana i Sinovi" [he means to say the restaurant Baba Cana],
ownership of Petrovski D. Jordan, from Kumanovo. As soon as I entered the
ground floor of the locale, among other guests, at a separate table I noticed
were seated the persons Tasev Todor Lt. Colonel of ARM [Army of the Republic of
Macedonia], Miodrag Zafirovski, Deputy Commander of what was until recently the
Municipal Headquarters of Territorial Defense for Kumanovo, but now employed
with the army barracks "Boro Menkov" in Kumanovo, as civilian
personnel. He is a graduate of the faculty of National Defense. Sitting in
their company was Petrovski D. Jordan, owner of the locale. When they noticed
me, both Tasev and Zafirovski invited me to sit with them so they could buy me
a drink.

I accepted the invitation; I greeted the same and joined
them. In their company I stayed for about 35-40 minutes, and afterwards I left.
While I was present, Petrovski Jordan mainly spoke about his latest trip to
Russia. The conversation had started before my arrival, so I was able to hear
it only in part. From what I heard, it is my opinion that the information which
Jordan gave regarding his trip to Russia, in particular that he made a very
good business deal with the Russians deserves attention (he didn’t mention
names of companies or names of persons). The trip was completed by means of his
passenger vehicle, and he was accompanied by two persons from the Republic of
Bulgaria. Cooperation with Bulgarian companies was going well, with a tendency
to get even better.

With that this conversation was interrupted and a new
conversation was started concerning the advertisement regarding the auctioning
off of the military facilities in the district of "Karpoš", and then
they talked about the Municipal Public Shelters in Kumanovo located in the
locality of "Bagrem-Banja" which Petrovski has leased, refigured and
adapted for the production of mushrooms. With regard to the mushroom farm,
Petrovski said that it was very profitable.

For the entire duration of my stay, I only listened to the
conversation, without taking any kind of participation; while concerning his
business cooperation with R Bulgaria, for reasons that I took into
consideration the findings and information from the report XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX concerning
Petrovski and his cooperation and special privileges with companies from R
Bulgaria.

OPERATIONAL COMMENTARY:

The information concerning Petrovski's association and
travel with two persons from the Republic of Bulgaria to Russia, likewise
Petrovski's good and unimpeded cooperation with companies from the Republic of
Bulgaria contains indications which make him interesting, all the more keeping
in mind his family origin.

It is our evaluation is that Petrovski Jordan deserves our
interest and treatment.

On 30/MAR/1993 between the hours of 11:30 and13:00 an
informative conversation was conducted with XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX at
"Bumerang" restaurant.

The conversation was conducted at our initiative, with the
goal of acquiring information of security-based nature concerning Petrovski
Dušan Jordan, owner of a private company from Kumanovo, person of security
interest by [line of] BNRS [Bulgarian National Intelligence Service].

XXXXXXXXXXX
had been employed in the restaurant "Baba Cana", ownership of
Petrovski Jordan. While under [Petrovski's] employ, XXXXXXXX found out that in the beginning of
the month of February four persons from Russia visited Petrovski in a business
capacity (Kuznecov Aleskij, Spuskanok Jurij, Tomatenko Vladimir and Biletski
Mihail), one of which was Minister of Commerce, while another a Secretary in
the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Concerning business cooperation with Bulgaria, XXXXXXXX said that
Petrovski had developed good cooperation and was making extra profits from it;
[Petrovski] was in constant contact with business partners from Russia and
especially with business partners from R Bulgaria. [Petrovski] traveled to R
Bulgaria for that reason, and often representatives from private and state
companies from Bulgaria were Petrovski's guests in Kumanovo. Concerning
Petrovski, further in the conversation XXXXXXXXXX said that he works wisely, he is very
careful, that he never included anybody in his business conversations with
representatives from R Bulgaria or Russia. When he was traveling to Russia or R
Bulgaria, he regularly travelled alone. [THE SOURCE] said that it was unknown
to him whether Petrovski was involved in something that is prohibited, but it
was obvious that [Petrovski] made extremely high profits over a relatively
short period of time, which he found to be indicative.

Concerning Petrovski's cooperation with companies from R
Bulgaria, the person Dragan N. owner of the company
"Biljanovce-promet" could have some additional information, as well
as Dragan, an employee at the restaurant "Baba Cana", ownership of
Jordan Petrovski.

No other information was acquired during the conversation.

OPERATIONAL COMMENTARY:

XXXXXXXXXXX
is a friendly connection of ours. Considering that he has a good relationship
with Petrovski Jordan, we will continue our contacts, with the goal of
gradually engaging XXXXXXX
toward [Petrovski].

For the purpose of finding appropriate persons and means to
engage them by toward Petrovski, XXXXXXXXXX an employee at "Baba Cana”, and XXXXXXXX owner of the
company XXXXXXXXXX
will be studied and called in for conversation.